Sample-package



. B. B. WEED.

SAMPLE PACKAGE.

Patented Aug. 9, 1881.

UNITED I STATES PATENT OF ICE.

EDWARD B. WVEED, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

SAMPLE-PACKAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 245,422, dated August9, 1881.

Application filed March 24, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom "it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD B. XVEED, ofCincinnati, in the county of Hamilton, State of Ohio, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in SamplePackages, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap and convenient packagefor cloth, general dry-goods, or other similar articles, which isespecially adapted for packing small samples for transmission throughthe mails, which package and its contents can be readily inspected bythe post-office officials without being removed from the addressedpackage, quickly refolded, and secured as originally, withoutdisarranging or liability of losing the samples.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of myimproved package unfolded, with a bundle of s'amples secured thereto. anempty unfolded package, taken through the securing-tapes.

Similar reference-letters indicate identical parts throughout thedifferent views.

A and B represent two strips of paper or other wrapping material,secured together in the form of a cross. The piece A is pasted orotherwise secured centrally upon piece B. Two tapes, 0 and D, aresecured between the folds, one above the other. The tape O extends outfrom the piece A upon each side a sufficient distance to tie over thepackage of samples, which is represented by E. The tape D passes throughtwo slits in piece 13, at each edge of piece A, so as to come outside ofthe piece B, to tie over the package when the same is enfolded. Thesamples should be about the size of the double portion of the package,upon Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of thus completely folding thepackage for mail-.

in g, when the address is written on or affixed to the bottom of thesame upon the double part of the paper.

It will be seen that a greater or less number of samples may be placedin the same package, and that the officials can readily inspect thepackage and samples without detaching them, and that, even should thefolding ends be torn off, the address would still be secured to thesamples: Indeed, for packing ordinary samples the ends A may be entirelyomitted, as they are only needed to give additional security and privacyto the samples.

It is evident that, instead of usingtwo pieces of packing-paper, crossedas A B,mypackage could be formed of a single piece. In this case thetape 0 should pass from the under side of the package up through slitsand the tape D from the inside out, as shown, both tapes passing eachother through the slits.

I claim- I As a new article of manufacture, the samplepackagc composedof the wrapper, the samplesecuring tape inside the wrapper, and the wrapper-securing tape outside of the wrapper, sub stantially as specified.

EDIVARD B. WEED.

Witnesses:

ALFRED B. BENEDICT, GEO. J. MURRAY.

